Location Scout 1

 Location Scouting
Wednesday 12th September 2012

After completing our brief, we went on our first location scout (Wednesday 12th September). We began this scout by taking the cameras out around the college and taking some still images in order to gain some idea of what we may be able to work with if we were to shoot at the college.

The neuvelle vague was a movement commenting on contemporary society hence using a younger generation, as the changes in society would have the greatest effect on them. therefore, we choose this location initially due to the fact that it would offer us a realistic setting, with a certain age group that is relative of our original brief as realism is something that is greatly used throughout the new wave movement. 



Will taking some still shots to get an idea of location.








Library.
We felt that this particular location may provide us with some slight differences with regard to the lighting. e.g. the narrow walk ways between book shelves may have had more of a low key effect than that of the courtyard (see below) which, during the day, would obviously be much brighter. However, we found this did not have the effect we expected as you can see from the image here.


Courtyard.
When heading to the courtyard, we felt this may make a good place to make use of a big nature light source, allowing us to experiment with techniques such as soft light.





After carrying out this location scout it became clear to us that simply shooting around college would not be at all enough and did not provide the environment or atmosphere that we wished to convey throughout our film. We had a another meeting (Thursday 13th September) and felt this would not give credit to the french new wave inspired film we are aiming to produce. Though we may be able to experiment with lighting etc it simply didn't seem suitable. All in all we felt this particular scout was unsuccessful, we therefore arranged for a second location scout for the following Monday (17th September), which would also include our first camera test. This would allow us to try out and experiment with lighting/composition and also get a feel for cameras and equipment we would be using.